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Generation games
As a fan of great oratory and public speaking, our columnist considers the folly of allowing AI to write wedding speeches
by MARK PALMER
It’s been said that Winston Churchill mobilised the English language and sent it into action with devastating effect to thwart Hitler’s obsession with world domination. The power of speech, in other words. That seems just as true as the observation that the great man was rarely drunk, but rarely sober either. It doesn’t matter – but oratory does.
Sadly, there’s not a lot of it nowadays, certainly not in the political arena. Tony Benn was, of course, a master, and dear old Ronald Reagan had his moments when reading from a script.